Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Refr: G-M 2293; Eimas 1658; Norman 1845 Refr: Published in 3 volumes, volume 3 published first in 1842, volume 2 in 1844, and volume 1 in 1846 Desc: With two title-leaves Note: An important book in the history of medicine, "Rokitansky ranks with Morgagni as among the greatest of all writers on gross pathology" (Morton). It was largely due to Rokitansky that the Vienna School achieved world prominence. Although he never practiced medicine, he performed over 30,000 autopsies, and his descriptions of structural changes in diseases had a great influence on clinical medicine. "The number of original observations in his 'Handbuch' is staggering ... Rokitansky revealed more clearly than any of his predecessors the natural history of disease and its structural manifestations" (Eimas)

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